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Treasures, Oilfield cruise

Tanner Brooks proved to be an enigma ReMax couldn’t solve during Bartlesville Area Amateur Baseball 14-and-under league action Tuesday night.

The right-handed throwing Brooks turned in a complete-game mound gem to lift Oilfield Pipe past ReMax, 12-6, on the BAAB’s South Field.

In the first game, Treasures Jewelry outlasted the Masonic Lodge Warriors, 13-6, also on the South Field.

BAAB action is slated to resume Thursday, weather permitting.

Following are summaries of Tuesday’s action:

Treasures 13, Masonic Lodge 6

With Clayton Mcfarland on the mound, the Warriors came up short of stringing together a big rally in the next-to-last inning.

Mcfarland struck out the last batter of the frame to preserve Treasure’s 11-6 lead.

The Jewelry lads then tacked on two more runs in their final at-bat.

Quintin Palmer started off the late surge by drawing a leadoff walk. He scored on Mcfarland’s wormburning triple — that rolled to deep rightfield — to stretch the Treasures’ lead to 12-6.

Moments later, Mcfarland scored on an outfield error to wrap up the scoring.

Treasures continued to threaten, with Bryant Messerli (who had reached on the aforementioned error) and Stevie Glenn on base.

But, Warriors’ coach Shannon Storm then called on Brennan Longacre to take over on the mound. Longacre struck out the next two batters to stop the damage.

The Warriors went down quickly in their final at-bat to end the game on the time limit.

Oilfield 12, ReMax 6

The first few innings featured a pitchers’ duel between Brooks and ReMax’ Jaumon Okyere.

Okyere retired the Oilfield side in order in the top of the first.

Brooks also set down ReMax one-two-three in the bottom of the first, which included a long throw by third baseman Trace Lagunas that reached first base on one hop, to retire a runner.

In the top of the second, Oilfield left two runners stranded.

But, ReMax couldn’t even put anyone on base in the bottom of the second. Leadoff batter Okyere spanked a towering pop fly toward right-center, but Oilfield centerfielder Caleb Colbert made the running catch, one of a handful of crucial catches he would make in the game.

The next two ReMax batters went down in the second on a strikeout and pop-up to the first baseman.

With the score still deadlocked, 0-0, Oilfield finally found a burst of offense in the top of the third, erupting for five runs.

Jarrett Jones led off the rally by reaching on an error.

Colbert reached on an error and Lagunas walked to load the bases, with one out.

Okyere nearly shut down the threat when he struck out the next batter.

That brought Cody Roop to the plate, facing two outs and the bases juiced.

On a 3-and-1 pitch, Roop lifted an infield pop fly — but it was dropped for an error and the scoring floodgate opened for Oilfield.

Two runs scored on the miscue, while Lagunas ended up at third and Roop went to second.

Following a walk to Chris Coin to load the bases, Donovan Crumpton took his turn at the plate. He ripped a double into leftfield to score both runners.

Crumpton later scored in the inning on a wild pitch to push Oilfield to a 5-0 lead.

In the bottom of the fourth, ReMax broke up the no-hitter but didn’t cash in with a run. Oilfield’s Roop registered the final out by reaching out and making a tough snag off a twisting pop fly.

Oilfield’s offense then picked up where it had left off in the third inning.

The boys in blue added five more runs — highlighted by Brooks’ two-run single — to double their lead to 10-0.

ReMax answered with an unearned run in the bottom of the forth, after Oilfield failed to tag out Okyere on a pickle play between third and home.

Okyere had reached base on a two-out walk. He stole second and advanced to third on an error and then headed for home. Oilfield did a smart job for a while in hedging Okyere’s path and forcing him to run back-and-forth between home and third. But, an overthrow to the plate allowed Okyere to scored and cut Oilfield’s lead to nine runs, 10-1.

ReMax added two more runs in the bottom of the fifth, one of them on an error on a ball put in play by Pierson Lavery, to get within seven, 10-3.

But, time was running out.

In the top of the sixth, Oilfield surged for two more runs, on RBI hits by Roop and Lagunas.

Trailing 12-3, ReMax came to the bat in the bottom of the sixth, with the time limit expired.

The squad made a valiant comeback attempt, scoring three times, while taking advantage of an error. One of the runs scored on an error on a ball put in play by Andrew Barnes.

The game finally ended with a flair of drama when a ReMax batter was thrown out at second while trying to stretch a single into a double.